> On Wed, May 11 2016, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Also, returning -EOVERFLOW is not exactly correct here, because you'd
> > violate POSIX specification of read(), right ?
> 
> Maybe we could piggyback on:
> 
>        EINVAL fd was created via a call to timerfd_create(2) and the
>               wrong size buffer was given to read();
> 
> But I kinda agree.  I’m not sure how much we need to care about this
> instead of having user space round their buffers up to the nearest max
> packet size boundary.
> 
> --
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> ミハウ “𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓪86” ナザレヴイツ
> «If at first you don’t succeed, give up skydiving»

This is a good idea that "having user space round their buffers". But kernel
Still cannot hide error silently. :)

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